Anthropic’s distillation crackdown would make sense only if pretraining returns are collapsing
darian314 · x · 2026-07-29
Replying to a complaint about Anthropic’s stance on distillation, the post argues the company would only push so hard if pre-training data were hitting sharply diminishing returns. The implied thesis is that a crackdown on distillation makes more sense when more raw data no longer buys much model improvement.
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